In the present edition, when it is clear that there
were two versions, my effort has been to retain one tradition pure,
recording the variants in the notes, even when in individual cases
the reading of the text adopted seemed to me
inferior
to its rival,
provided it was not demonstrably wrong.
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Ther was the
dougghte
Doglas slean:
The Perse never went away.
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"
[Picture: The Thing
standing
by chair]
"I've caught a cold," the Thing replies,
"Out there upon the landing.
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>>,
rispuos' io lui con
vergognosa
fronte.
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Where
Falsehood
fills the throne, while Truth retires,
And vainly mourns her half-extinguish'd fires.
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Petrarch - Poems |
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At barn or byre thou shalt na drudge,
Or
naething
else to trouble thee;
But stray amang the heather-bells,
And tent the waving corn wi' me.
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We Have Created the Night
We have created the night I hold your hand I watch
I sustain you with all my powers
I engrave in rock the star of your powers
Deep furrows where your body's goodness fruits
I recall your hidden voice your public voice
I smile still at the proud woman
You treat like a beggar
The madness you respect the simplicity you bathe in
And in my head which gently blends with yours with the night
I wonder at the
stranger
you become
A stranger resembling you resembling everything I love
One that is always new.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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EJC}
Farewell the God calls me away I depart in my sweet bliss
She fled
vanishing
on the wind And left a dead cold corse
In Los's arms howlings began over the body of death {Line written over erased text.
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Blake - Zoas |
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So they--Thrice
grateful
to his soul the thought
Seem'd of repose.
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Odyssey - Cowper |
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General Aupick,
the representative of the French Government, cordially the young men
received; they were
presented
to his wife, Madame Aupick.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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What is a
thyrsus?
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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Therewithal
at my behest
Shall Lyctian Aegon and Damoetas sing,
And Alphesiboeus emulate in dance
The dancing Satyrs.
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"Is it
possible
that I have
written verses that are 'filled with beauty,' and is it possible
that you really think them worthy of being given to the world?
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But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed,
Though I have seen my head (grown
slightly
bald) brought in upon a platter,
I am no prophet--and here's no great matter;
I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker,
And I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker,
And in short, I was afraid.
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T.S. Eliot |
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After all,
There 's Ugo says the ring is only paste,
For he 's sure the Count
Castiglione
never
Would have given a real diamond to such as you;
And at the best I'm certain, Madam, you cannot
Have use for jewels now.
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Edgar Allen Poe |
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*
[Then forms of horror howled]
The first state weeping they began &
helpless
as a wave
Beaten along its sightless way growing enormous in its motion to
Its utmost goal, till strength from Enion like richest summer shining *
Raisd the [bright][fierce]boy & girl with glories from their heads out beaming *
Drawing forth drooping mothers pity drooping mothers sorrow *
But those in Great Eternity Met in the Council of God
As One Man hovering over Gilead & Hermon
He is the Good Shepherd He is the Lord & Master
To Create Man Morning by Morning to Give gifts at Noon day
Enion brooded, oer the rocks, the rough rocks vegetating groaning vegetate
Such power was given to the Solitary wanderer.
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Blake - Zoas |
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at is
grattest
in grene, when greue3 ar bare,
208 [C] & an ax in his o?
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Gawaine and the Green Knight |
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"
MENALCAS
"These truly- nor is even love the cause-
Scarce have the flesh to keep their bones together
Some evil eye my
lambkins
hath bewitched.
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That's all that's left already of our true play,
Where the pure poet's gesture, humble, vast
Must deny the dream, the enemy of his trust:
So that on the morning of his exalted stay,
When ancient death is for him as for Gautier,
The un-opening of sacred eyes, the being-still,
The solid tomb may rise, ornament this hill,
The
sepulchre
where lies the power to blight,
And miserly silence and the massive night.
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Mallarme - Poems |
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You've stolen away that great power
My beauty
ordained
for me
Over priests and clerks, my hour,
When never a man I'd see
Would fail to offer his all in fee,
Whatever remorse he'd later show,
But what was abandoned readily,
Beggars now scorn to know.
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Villon |
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My memory
Is still
obscured
by seeing your coming
And going.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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FUSCUS
_smiles, and with a mischievous fondness for a joke,
pretends
he does not understand_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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An' doosn't the right primy-fashy include
The bein' entitled to nut be
subdued?
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James Russell Lowell |
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--
Thou dar'st not tell me that in
earnest!
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Faust, a Tragedy by Goethe |
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and John Gould
Fletcher
and F.
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Imagists |
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And
whosoever
looked on you, they say
That instant fell in love.
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Pushkin - Boris Gudonov |
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X
Much as brave Jason by the Colchian shore,
Through magic arts won the Golden Fleece,
Sowing the plain with the old serpent's teeth,
To
engender
soldiers from the furrow's store,
This city, that in youthful season bore
A Hydra's nest of warriors, raised a yeast
Of brave nurslings, who their proud glory saw
Fill the Sun's mansions, to the west and east:
But in the end, lacking a Hercules
To vanquish so fecund a progeny,
Arming themselves in civil enmity,
Mowed each other down, a cruel harvest,
Reliving thus the fraternal harsh unrest
Which had blinded that proud seeded army.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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[_While he sings_
MAGUELONNE
_enters with a skin of
wine.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Floats round about the anxious-quivering air
'Twixt narrow
Schuylkill
and broad Delaware.
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Sidney Lanier |
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Soon, up aloft, 30
The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide:
The level chambers, ready with their pride,
Were glowing to receive a
thousand
guests:
The carved angels, ever eager-eyed,
Star'd, where upon their heads the cornice rests,
With hair blown back, and wings put cross-wise on their breasts.
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Keats |
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The gem in Eastern mine which slumbers,
Or ruddy gold 'twill not bestow;
'Twill not subdue the turban'd numbers,
Before the Prophet's shrine which bow;
Nor high through air on
friendly
pinions
Can bear thee swift to home and clan,
From mournful climes and strange dominions--
From South to North--my Talisman.
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Pushkin - Talisman |
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`O Pandarus,'
thoughte
he, `allas!
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Chaucer - Troilius and Criseyde |
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The
croupier
raked in the money while he looked on in stupid terror.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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_All_ sey (say), _after which
ryght is
needlessly
inserted; I omit it_.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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I'll
instruct
you farther
As I wait on your worship.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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Thus things
Down to the vilest lees of
brawling
mobs
Succumbed, whilst each man sought unto himself
Dominion and supremacy.
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Lucretius |
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"When at last we
unlocked
the door,
We found him dead upon the floor;
The rings had dropped from his withered hands,
His teeth were like bones in the desert sands:
Still clutching his treasure he had died;
And as he lay there, he appeared
A statue of gold with a silver beard,
His arms outstretched as if crucified.
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Longfellow |
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Chanson de Roland |
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Of these am I, who thy
protection
claim, 105
A watchful sprite, and Ariel is my name.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thus hath he
graunted
my prayere.
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Chaucer - Romuant of the Rose |
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And though awhile against Time they make war,
These
buildings
still, yet it must be that Time
In the end, both works and names, will flaw.
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Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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'Jesus, King of the World,' she cried,
'Through you my grief is at its height,
Insult to you
confounds
me, I
Lose the best of this world wide:
He goes to serve and win your grace.
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Troubador Verse |
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Finally, most of us believe that
concentration
is of the very essence
of poetry.
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Imagists |
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[Footnote 2: In the _Letters to
Severall
Persons of Honour, &c.
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John Donne |
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Only I know while day grew night,
Turning still to the
vanished
years,
Love looked back as he took his flight,
And lo, his eyes were filled with tears.
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Sara Teasdale |
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My harsh dreams knew the riding of you
The fleece of this goat and even
You set
yourself
against beauty.
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Appoloinaire |
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So lived the
clansmen
in cheer and revel
a winsome life, till one began
to fashion evils, that field of hell.
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Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere |
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) Then this is the
exception
that proves the rule.
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Kipling - Poems |
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Soon, a young officer
appeared
at the corner of the
street; the girl blushed and bent her head low over her canvas.
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Pushkin - Queen of Spades |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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V 25 of the
Assyrian
text, [7]
where Gilgamish begins to relate his dreams to his mother Ninsun.
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Epic of Gilgamesh |
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Nay: I have no remembrance of such place:
Such world I
fashioned
not.
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Thomas Hardy - Poems of the Past and Present |
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Hush, call no echo up in further proof
Of
desolation!
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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Belike
You have not heard that Henry has at last
Dissolved the Barons' League, and sent abroad
His
Sheriffs
with fit force to reinstate
The genuine owners of such Lands and Baronies
As, in these long commotions, have been seized.
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Wordsworth - 1 |
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You say you'll kiss me, and I thank you for it;
But
stinking
breath, I do as hell abhor it.
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Robert Herrick |
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I had trod the road which Dante
treading
saw
the suns of seven circles shine,
Ay!
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Wilde - Poems |
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I am
persuaded that if the
Irishmen
who are painting conventional pictures
or writing conventional books on alien subjects, which have been worn
away like pebbles on the shore, would do the same, they, too, might
find themselves.
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Yeats |
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By Cleveland's Ghost, upon the
Death of Captain Douglas, who was burned
on his ship at Chatham 127
|5 A
Horatian
Ode upon Cromwell's return from Ireland .
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Marvell - Poems |
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THIS very
sentiment
Joconde bethought;
But Clod a breathing moment having caught,
Resum'd his fun, and that so oft would seek:
He gratified his wishes for a week;
Then watching carefully, he found once more;
Our noble heroes had begun to snore,
On which he slyly took himself away,
The road he came, and ere 'twas break of day;
The girl soon follow'd, since she justly fear'd,
Still more fatigues:--so off she quickly steer'd,
AT length when both the nobles were awake;
Astolphus said, my friend you rest should take,
'Twere better till to-morrow keep in bed,
Since sleep, with such fatigues, of course has fled:
You talk at random, cried the Roman youth;
More rest I fancy you require in truth;
You've led a pretty life throughout the night;
I?
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La Fontaine |
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er be somwhat
folysche
and confus 3788
whan ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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The loosened rafter overhead
Trembles and bends like
quivering
reed;
Shakes the old door with shuddering dread,
As from its rusty hinge 'twould fly!
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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) LFS}
They said The Spectre is in every man insane & most
Deformd Thro the three heavens descending in fury & fire
We meet it with our Songs & loving blandishments & give
To it a form of vegetation But this Spectre of Tharmas
Is Eternal Death What shall we do O God help pity & help
So spoke they & closd the Gate of
Auricular
power nerves the Tongue in trembling fear*
{Passage written down the right margin LFS}
What have I done!
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Blake - Zoas |
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French - Apollinaire - Alcools |
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As Far As My Eye Can See In My Body's Senses
All the trees all their branches all of their leaves
The grass at the foot of the rocks and the houses en masse
Far off the sea that your eye bathes
These images of day after day
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The transparency of men passing among them by chance
And passing women breathed by your elegant obstinacies
Your obsessions in a heart of lead on virgin lips
The vices the virtues so imperfect
The likeness of looks of permission with eyes you conquer
The confusion of bodies
wearinesses
ardours
The imitation of words attitudes ideas
The vices the virtues so imperfect
Love is man incomplete
Barely Disfigured
Adieu Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse
Farewell Sadness
Hello Sadness
You are inscribed in the lines on the ceiling
You are inscribed in the eyes that I love
You are not poverty absolutely
Since the poorest of lips denounce you
Ah with a smile
Bonjour Tristesse
Love of kind bodies
Power of love
From which kindness rises
Like a bodiless monster
Unattached head
Sadness beautiful face.
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Paul Eluard - Poems |
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Then a damp gust
Bringing
rain
Ganga was sunken, and the limp leaves
Waited for rain, while the black clouds
Gathered far distant, over Himavant.
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T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land |
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Sarojini Naidu - Golden Threshold |
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I am scattered like
the hot
shrivelled
seeds.
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H. D. - Sea Garden |
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Thou, O my Grief, be wise and
tranquil
still,
The eve is thine which even now drops down,
To carry peace or care to human will,
And in a misty veil enfolds the town.
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Baudelaire - Poems and Prose Poems |
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But when my glass shows me myself indeed
Beated and chopp'd with tanned antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite
contrary
I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
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Shakespeare - Sonnets |
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But naught can Love's all
charming
power efface,
That light, our misty tracks suspended o'er,
In joy thou'rt ours, more dear thy tearful grace,
The young may curse thee, but the old adore.
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Hugo - Poems |
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THE THREE GOSSIPS' WAGER
AS o'er their wine one day, three gossips sat,
Discoursing various pranks in
pleasant
chat,
Each had a loving friend, and two of these
Most clearly managed matters at their ease.
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La Fontaine |
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Thensforth from her most beastly
companie
365
I gan refraine, in minde to slip away,
Soone as appeard safe opportunitie:
For danger great, if not assur'd decay,
I saw before mine eyes, if I were knowne to stray.
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Spenser - Faerie Queene - 1 |
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Do not copy, display, perform, distribute or redistribute this
electronic work, or any part of this electronic work, without
prominently
displaying
the sentence set forth in paragraph 1.
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Sonnets from the Portugese |
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"
Glad of a quarrel,
straight
I clap the door,
Sir, let me see your works and you no more.
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Alexander Pope |
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Thou art thy mother's only joy;
And do not dread the waves below,
When o'er the sea-rock's edge we go;
The high crag cannot work me harm,
Nor leaping
torrents
when they howl;
The babe I carry on my arm,
He saves for me my precious soul;
Then happy lie, for blest am I;
Without me my sweet babe would die.
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Coleridge - Lyrical Ballads |
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--The
translations
include the _Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte_;
_Napoleon's Farewell_; _On the Star of "The Legion of Honour"_; _From
the French_; _Ode from the French_.
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Byron |
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Heaven and Earth and the Sun on his
indefatigable
journey
Over that infinite path never did witness the like!
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Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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For the uninitiated I would also suggest reading a little about the Troubadours on Wikipedia, which leads the reader on to a vast amount of interesting material online,
especially
the music.
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Troubador Verse |
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All
architecture
is what you do to it when you look upon it,
(Did you think it was in the white or gray stone?
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Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass |
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L'Epitaphe Villon: Ballade Des Pendus
My
brothers
who live after us,
Don't harden you hearts against us too,
If you have mercy now on us,
God may have mercy upon you.
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"The King of Plagues, the Chosen of Sinai,
Is he that, o'er the rushing waters driven,
A
vigorous
hand hath rescued for the sky;
Ye whose proud hearts disown the ways of heaven!
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Hugo - Poems |
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Siate, Cristiani, a muovervi piu gravi:
non siate come penna ad ogne vento,
e non
crediate
ch'ogne acqua vi lavi.
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Dante - La Divina Commedia |
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Wilt thou freeze love's tidal flow,
Whose streams through Nature
circling
go?
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Emerson - Poems |
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It may be worth while to select a particular story, and to trace
its probable
progress
through these stages.
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Macaulay - Lays of Ancient Rome |
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Gutenberg is a registered trademark, and may not be used if you
charge for the eBooks, unless you receive
specific
permission.
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Li Bai - Chinese |
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SOLNESS _is
examining_
RAGNAR BROVIK'S _drawings_.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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PROMETHEUS
No--else I had not
wrangled
with a slave!
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Aeschylus |
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His from youth the leader's look
Gave the law which others took,
And never poor beseeching glance
Shamed that
sculptured
countenance.
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Emerson - Poems |
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In 1773 he made a careful
revision
and
published it anonymously under the title of "Goetz von Berlichingen of
the Iron Hand"; it is in this form we possess the work now.
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World's Greatest Books - Volume 17 - Poetry and Drama |
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None of Gama's interpreters, however,
could understand a word of their language, or obtain any
information
of
India.
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Camoes - Lusiades |
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By the same Author
THE SHADOWS OF SILENCE AND
THE SONGS OF YESTERDAY
THE GRAVE OF EROS AND THE
BOOK OF
MOURNFUL
MELODIES
WITH DREAMS FROM THE EAST
BAUDELAIRE--THE FLOWERS OF EVIL
In preparation
THE VOICE OF THE ANCIENT
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Stefan George - Selections from His Works and Others |
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Where youth (the proper rhyme is
fleetness)?
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Pushkin - Eugene Oneigin |
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What need to boast thy blood
Unspoilt
of Austria, and thy heart unsold
Away from Florence?
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Elizabeth Browning |
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I skoal to the eyes as grey-blown mere (Who knows whose was that
paragon?
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Ezra-Pound-Provenca-English |
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"`Since you've been out, the news arrives
The Elfs'
Insurance
Company's gone.
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Sidney Lanier |
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And in a valour
lessening
Arthur^s deeds,
For holiness the Confessor exceeds.
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Marvell - Poems |
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_95
Better than all measures
Of
delightful
sound,
Better than all treasures
That in books are found,
Thy skill to poet were, thou scorner of the ground!
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Shelley |
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_Asiatic
Journal_
LES ORIENTALES.
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Victor Hugo - Poems |
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He not a word was told of things designed,
And just as our gallant to sleep inclined,
As oft's the case at length with lovers true,
Quite open bright Aurora's portals flew,
And with a smile the aged dame arrived;
The apparatus properly contrived,
Was in her hand, she
hastened
to the bed,
And took the side that to the stripling led.
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La Fontaine |
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for whan he was
accused by Gayus Cesar
Germeins
son ?
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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